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I find it much easier to make big posts like this whenever stuff happens instead of writing lots of little ones…

Toribash

I got Toribash a few days ago, it is basically a game where you bash the crap out of an opponent.

It’s not a button smasher sort of thing though, you have control over about 20 ‘muscles’ which you can either relax, hold, contract, extend and in some cases turn left, turn right, raise and lower.

What the Toribash wiki says:

Toribash is a ragdoll-physics, turn-based fighting game created by Hampus Söderström (AKA Hampa), a Swedish software developer. Toribash was a “Best Game Idea” finalist at the 2006 Swedish Game Awards.

The basic aim of the game is to fight the opponent, scoring points for damage. Some limbs break easier then others, others give more points when hit. To get more points, each joint can be relaxed, contracted, extended or held. This makes the gameplay very open-ended as there are no set moves, although many people will copy a move which seems to work well.

Toribash is a shareware game. Simply go to [Toribash.com] to download it. Unlike Direct X, Open GL lets all formats of computers download and play the game including Linux and Mac.

When you do become a registered player it is not just for a month or yearly, it is for life. Many new features await you. You can become an official member of the Toribash forum. [[1]] A widely expanding forum that has been around ever since the administrator Veb, created it. Ever since that occurred, new opportunities awaited for the Toribash game as a whole. Two pieces are better than one.

Toribash has turned into a game that keeps getting better and better as time goes on; a developing experience. It makes the game stay refreshing every time you play it. From new updates, to new capabilites such as joint color, blood color, torso color etc., it all boils down to Toribash being one of the most improved games anyone has ever seen.

Here is a video of some of the stuff you can do:

It can also be artsy:

Crysis

I got Crysis as well and it isn’t really that good. I made a custom config so I could play it with dx10 graphics on my dx9 system and sure it looked stunning but the campaign is pretty crap.

That said the sandbox is pretty awesome. I love making a hundred thousand barrels and just dropping a tornado into it all. I also love tearing down houses with my fists and picking up the enemy and using them to bring down a tank. I also like shooting a guy in the face in pitch darkness, having his friends come over, shine their gun mounted lasers at me, not notice because of my cloak, then me coming up behind them with a rock and crushing their bodies to mush.

Here are some pictures, and by the way, this is not the quality that I normally play on, I can’t stand anything less than 60 fps to I have to turn off DOF and motion blur, and a few other things…

That concludes part 1 of What has happened since the 8th of August.